Best Hiccup Cure? We Found How to Get Rid of Hiccups!

How to get rid of hiccups has been a question in my house ever since my oldest son was born 12 years ago. All three of the boys {and myself} are hiccup prone.

We have tried almost everything from drinking LOTS of water, holding our breath, drinking upside-down and even a spoonful of sugar.

Incidentally, my kids favorite hiccup cure is the spoonful of sugar, but it unfortunately it has proved to be the least effective!

Up until we learned the secret, the best method was being scared out of hiccups. But once you realize someone is going to scare you, you don’t get scared.

How We Learned About the Hiccup Cure

We were on vacation staying at a roadside hotel in Amarillo, TX on our drive from Texas to Colorado. The hotel had a buffet breakfast which we were inhaling {foreshadow alert} before the long trip ahead.

My 10 year old had the hiccups.

He was walking {hiccup} around the {hiccup} buffet choosing the food {hiccup} he was going to {hiccup} eat when a stranger {hiccup} approached him.

“Do you want me to show you how to get rid of those?”

Startled by being approached by a stranger scared the hiccups out of him! But that is NOT the cure I am talking about.

The man’s wife approached and announced that they knew the secret to 100% hiccup cure to date. They were a retired couple also traveling and they swore that this was grandkid-tested. We chatted for awhile. They shared the secret and I thanked them.

Ever since that day, we have used this hiccup ridding method and it has been 100% effective for us too!

OK already! Tell us how to get rid of hiccups!

Best Hiccup Cure

It is a simple two-step process:

The person with the hiccups drinks a beverage WHILE

Another person stands behind him/her and pulls DOWN gently on both the hiccuper’s ear lobes.

It works pretty quickly. Usually a few swallows in, the hiccups disappear.

I know of one thing that works on just about everyone… you have to catch the person with the hiccups off guard!! Example… ask them what color is in the Mexican flag?? It will take their minds off the hiccups!!! Best thing EVER!!!

Here is another way to cure hiccups 100 % of the time. Person who Hals the hiccups put your fingers in both ear to plug them and at the same time have someone take a glass or bottle of water.
Somebody told me this when I had a
really bad case of hiccups and they gone the minute I did this. It has also helped everybody I know who tried this.

One teaspoon of balsamic vinegar works every time. Probably a difficult swallow with the young children, but a breeze for everyone else. When I was in grade school we would take a teaspoon of mustard and this is much easier. If you have a olive oil and vinegar store in your town you can get a great flavor, like white peach balsamic and it’s actually yummy.

This works well, too:
Get a tiny bowl or spoon of granulated sugar.
Have the person get their finger wet and dip it in the sugar.
Then they suck the sugar off their finger without breathing.
Hiccups GONE! Really. It works. 🙂

I know three ways to get rid of hiccups. I use this ALL the time since I am a teacher. Water, sugar, lemons and other kinds of foods are good but sometimes you just don’t have those things handy, like in a classroom.

1. Catch the person with the hiccups off guard by rushing them to name 10 things in a category very quickly. I usually use vegetables or song titles. You have to rush them and keep count and keep their mind off anything else other than the list and you need to catch them off guard.

2 If that doesn’t work, or the hiccups come back, ask the person with the hiccups to do a series of physical activities. First, stand on one foot. Second, hop on the foot you are standing on. Third, now keep hopping and pat your head. Fourth, as they are doing those three things add rubbing their belly. Usually by then the hiccups are gone.

3. The last way to get the hiccups to go away with out food or any other outside item, is to tell the person with hiccups this – “Prove to me that you have the hiccups. Hiccup RIGHT NOW!” For some reason, trying to prove you have the hiccups makes them go away.

My grandson actually taught us the cure that works every time. You drink while pulling your own earlobe out. For me it’s my right earlobe while I take a couple swallows of water. Then they are gone like magic. I guess it makes sense because our ears, nose and throat are connected.

ok so i have read all through these comments and there seems to be many different ways to cure the hiccups that i have never heard of. for my family we would just sip a drink of water upside down like from the opposite side of the cup while bending over. (does that even make sense?) what i want to know is – does anyone have any medical theory as to why and how these curious remedy’s work? ??? i would love to hear some of these explained =) cant wait for the chance to pull someones ears!

I learned this cure from my grandmother, Nana, the person with hiccups gets a glass of water, start drinking it counting the swallows of water not letting up. You have to take as many gulps as you can but you MUST end with an odd number of swallows.
It has always worked for me and my family. Try it and let me know how it works for you.

The way we get rid of hiccups is to grab 2 cold metal cans of your favorite beverage and place one on each side of your neck right about where your carotid artery is and leave them there for about 30-60 seconds. What I was told is that the cold interrupts the signal going down your neck that triggers the hiccups.

Wow! This is a cool idea. We got a hicural and guess what. We have had it in the house for 15 months or so and no one has had the hiccups. I guess it works without ever being used!
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The whole hiccup thing has to do with spasms. When I was a kid I would drink from a drinking fountain or glass of water upside-down and drink 10 sips while holding my breath (full lungs). Then instead of gasping for air I would breath slowly in and slowly out. This worked 99% of the time. 100% on the second time. Never took more than two times. As an adult with kids I started to think about this…and it is all in the spasms. Now I do hold my breath and drink 10 swallows but not upside-down. The IMPORTANT THING to stop the spasms is after you finish not to gasp for hair. I think holding your breath stops the spasms, the drinking of the water perhaps is what pulling on the ear lobe does – BUT DO NOT GASP FOR BREATH….it will start the spasms again. Let the air out slowly and the next breath in slowly. It works every time. Why am I telling you this – there will be time no one will be there to help you pull your ear lobe. Plus it doesn’t seem as silly!

From where I come from, the old belief is to tear and lick a small piece of paper/newspaper (probably about the size of a finger tip) and paste it on the hiccuping baby’s forehead. We laughed when we first tried it when my boy was an infant, but were surprised that the hiccups stopped after a while. Not sure if it’ll work on 10 year olds and don’t think it’ll be on their foreheads for long!

I tried this and IT WORKED!!! I’ve had the hiccups for over thirty minutes and it was driving me crazy. My ear lobes being pulled down while I drank my tea cured them INSTANTLY!!! Thank you sooooo much 🙂

If you are reluctant to pull earlobes, use this trick. It also works for the hiccupper to drink a drink every time another person says a number, counting from one to ten. This give the diaphragm time to “relax” and the hiccups will disappear instantly!! Never has failed me yet.

Actually I have the best way to get rid of hiccups without drinking, eating moving around, or holding your breath.

You have to understand that a hiccup is a spasm… Do you ever get a muscle spasm in your arm or leg and go to feel it and then it goes away?

Well what you want to do is be in tune with your body and try and “feel” your hiccup before it happens. If you give it all your thought and undivided attention the spasm will stop because you are incoherently taking control over what is spasming.

If someone is hiccuping try telling them “here lets get rid of them… I need you to pay close attention to your hiccups and try and tell me when you are going to hiccup next.”

I will say that I’ve tried this multiple times since you posted it and it has worked every time, on children and adults alike. The peanut butter sounds good, but the last person I tried it on, we were at the zoo, and obviously didn’t have a jar of peanut butter handy!